Armistead Maupin, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-06-076135-6
Maupin denies that this is a seventh volume of his beloved Tales of the City
, but—happily—that's exactly what it is, with style and invention galore. When we left the residents of 28 Barbary Lane, it was 1989, and Michael "Mouse&
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Armistead Maupin, Harper, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-147088-2
In the sure-to-please follow-up to Michael Tolliver Lives, the bestselling Tales of the City reboot, it's been 20 years since series anchor Mary Ann Singleton left her family and headed to New York. Maupin's San Francisco is comforting in its...
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Armistead Maupin, Author Harper Perennial $14 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-092434-8
Though narrator Cadence Roth is only 31 inches tall, her impact on the reader's emotions is enormous. BOMC alternate in cloth. (Aug.)
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Armistead Maupin, Author HarperCollins Publishers $26 (344p) ISBN 978-0-06-017143-8
The lines between reality and illusion are intriguingly blurred in this novel from the author of the Tales of the City series. Maupin also takes on various questions about how art imitates life, since there are many similarities here between author...
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Armistead Maupin, Author Harper Perennial $9.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-06-096126-8
Readers familiar with Maupin's Tales of the City series will greet this latest installment like a welcome visit from old friends. Once again, the action focuses on the misadventures of a cross-section of San Franciscans, who this time take to the...
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Armistead Maupin, Author HarperCollins Publishers $18.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-06-016164-4
Tales of the City , the author's six-novel chronicle of gay, straight, single and married life in San Francisco, comes to a smart, wistful conclusion in this final installment. The series' large cult readership will already be familiar with the cast:
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Armistead Maupin, Author HarperCollins Publishers $11 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-092033-3
The author's six-novel chronicle of gay, straight, single and married life in San Francisco, which began with Tales of the City , comes to a clever, wistful conclusion here. PW praised Maupin's ``unerring ability to capture the exact tone of smart...
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Armistead Maupin, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (307p) ISBN 978-0-06-016552-9
Though Cadence Roth, the heroine of Maupin's captivating novel, is only 31 inches tall (she is said to have held the title the World's Shortest Mobile Adult Human in the Guinness Book ofRecords), her impact on the reader's emotions is enormous. In...
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Armistead Maupin, Author Harper Perennial $12 (371p) ISBN 978-0-06-092480-5
Maupin's alternately playful and sentimental tales depict an all-too-easily satirized population of transients and toffs living in and around San Francisco. (Jan.)
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Armistead Maupin. Harper, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-219624-8
This ninth Tales of the City installment is Maupin’s farewell to his beloved cast of characters. While his last few books have highlighted San Francisco’s Michael “Mouse” Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton, the author updates fans with 28 Barbary Lane’s
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Armistead Maupin. Harper, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-239122-3
The celebrated author of Tales of the City series revisits his turbulent upbringing and path to self-actualization in this engrossing and emotional memoir. Born in North Carolina into a bigoted family that revered its Confederate history, Maupin...
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Armistead Maupin, Author, Armistead Maupin, Performed by , read by the author. HarperAudio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-125641-7
Maupin's seventh volume in his Tales of the City series arrives 18 years after his supposed final Tales novel, Sure of You
. Indeed, the story picks up nearly 20 years later with none of the characters still living at 28 Barbary Lane, but still
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Armistead Maupin, Author, Armistead Maupin, Read by HarperAudio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-52144-9
HAfter an eight-year wait, Maupin rewards his fans and accomplishes the unthinkable: surpassing the excellence of his Tales of the City series. Filled with twists and turns that rival The Sixth Sense and The Crying Game, Maupin's new novel is a...
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Armistead Maupin, read by Frances McDormand. HarperAudio, unabridged, digital download, 7.5 hrs. $18.99 ISBN 978-0-06-225973-8
Maupin’s tale of young Mary Ann Singleton, who relocates to 28 Barbary Lane in 1970s San Francisco at a time of great upheaval, is as engaging and relevant today as it was when it was first published (in 1978). In this audio edition, Frances...
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Armistead Maupin, read by the
author. Harper Audio, , unabridged, digital download, 8.5 hrs., $18.99 ISBN 978-0-06-274259-9
Novelist Maupin traces his journey from a conservative North Carolina upbringing to the emerging gay liberation scene of his beloved adopted hometown of San Francisco during the pivotal 1970s. As narrator of the audio edition, Maupin’s vocal styling
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Armistead Maupin. Harper, $30 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-297359-7
Maupin’s satisfying 10th Tales of the City novel (after The Days of Anna Madrigal) transports his familiar bawdiness from San Francisco to the English countryside. It’s 1993, and Rhonda and Ernie Blaylock, a conservative couple from North Carolina,...
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Armistead Maupin, Isabelle Bauthian, and Sandrine Revel, trans. from the French by Lillah Campagna and Fabrice Sapolsky. Ablaze, $19.99 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-950912-59-9
Bauthian and Revel (Glenn Gould) take on Maupin’s classic story of queer folks and alternate lifestyles in 1970s San Francisco in this lush graphic adaptation. Mary Ann Singleton, freshly transplanted from Cleveland, Ohio, moves into eccentric Anna...
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